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The so-called '''"Wise Use" movement ''' is an [[front group|industry-front ]] and anti-environmentalist organization founded by [[Ron Arnold]] in the late 1980s, primarily dealing with timber and mining issues in the western US.
It inspired a number of spin-off groups, including the "[[Share]]" groups in the Canadian province of British Columbia (B.C.), which give the appearance of being grass-roots community organizations, but are in fact organized and funded by major corporations. (For example, the "[[B.C. Forest Alliance]]" was chaired for its initial period by an executive of [[Burson-Marsteller]].) This type of "fake grass-roots" group led to their description of the advocacy as being an [[astroturf]] campaign.